Alma 12:35 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
behold I [swear 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|sware D] in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest

The 1841 British edition accidentally spelled swear as sware, the homophonous past-tense spelling for the verb swear. The larger context here requires the present-tense swear, which the subsequent LDS edition (1849) restored to the text.

Summary: Maintain the present-tense swear in Alma 12:35.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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